Model diet

It promises that youll drop two dress sizes and up to 12lb in two weeks, but does the worlds first safe crash diet really work, asks Viv Groskop

Heidi Klum, Liv Tyler and Linda Evangelista all train with David Kirsch, the owner and founder of the Madison Square Club, one of New York’s most renowned gyms. He devised a special two-week programme for them, one that — if supervised personally by Kirsch — costs $7,500 (about £4,000). It promises that you will drop two dress sizes and lose 8lb-12lb in 14 days, and is marketed as the world’s first “safe crash diet”.

Now, I don’t have access to Kirsch, or $7,500. But I do have his book, The Ultimate New York Body Plan, and a frenzied determination to lose as much lard as possible. It is 15 months since I had a baby, and I still look pregnant.

It is only day one, and I almost give up while trying to work out what I can eat for breakfast. I am thinking extreme. A banana? Perhaps some delicious carrots? No,